1 Thessalonians 2:6

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

nether sought we prayse of men nether of you nor yet of eny other when we myght have bene chargeable as the apostles of Christ

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Referenced Verses

  • John 5:41 : 41 I receave not prayse of men.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How can ye beleve which receave honoure one of another and seke not the honoure that commeth of God only?
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 Preache I mannes doctrine or Godes? Ether go I about to please men? If I stodyed to please men I were not the servaunt of Christ.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 Ye remember brethre oure laboure and travayle. For we laboured daye and nyght because we wolde not be greveous vnto eny of you and preached vnto you ye gospell of God.
  • 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 Am I not an Apostle? am I not fre? have I not sene Iesus Christ oure LORde? 2 Are not ye my worke in the LORde. Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other yet am I vnto you. For the seale of myne Apostleshippe are ye in the LORde.
  • Phlm 1:8-9 : 8 Wherfore though I be bolde in Christ to enioyne the that which becometh the: 9 yet for loves sake I rather beseche the though I be as I am eve Paul aged and now in bondes for Iesu Christes sake.
  • 1 Cor 9:4-6 : 4 Have we not power to eate and to drynke? 5 Ether have we not power to leade about a sister to wyfe as wel as other Apostles and as the brethren of the LORde and Cephas? 6 Ether only I and Barnabas have not power this to do?
  • 1 Cor 9:12-18 : 12 Yf other be parttakers of this power over you? wherfore are not we rather. Neverthelesse we have not vsed this power: but suffre all thinges lest we shuld hynder the gospell of Christ. 13 Do ye not vnderstoder how that they which minister in the temple have their fyndynge of the temple? And they which wayte at the aulter are partakers with ye aultre? 14 Even so also dyd ye LORde ordayne that they which preache ye gospell shuld live of the gospell. 15 But I have vsed none of these thinges. Nether wrote I these thinges that it shuld be so done vnto me. For it were better for me to dye the yt eny man shnld take this reioysinge from me. 16 In that I preache the gospell I have nothinge to reioyce of. For necessite is put vnto me. Wo is it vnto me yf I preache not the gospell. 17 If I do it with a good will I have a rewarde. But yf I do it agaynst my will an office is committed vnto me. 18 What is my rewarde then? Verely that whe I preache the gospell I make the gospell of Christ fre yt I misvse not myne auctorite in ye gospel
  • 1 Cor 11:9 : 9 Nether was the man created for ye womas sake: but the woma for the mannes sake
  • 1 Cor 12:13-15 : 13 For in one sprete are we all baptysed to make one body whether we be Iewes or getyls whether we be bonde or fre: and have all dronke of one sprete. 14 For the body is not one member but many. 15 Yf the fote saye: I am not the honde therfore I am not of the body: is he therfore not of ye body:
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we preache not oure selves but Christ Iesus to be the Lorde and oure selves youre servautes for Iesus sake.
  • 2 Cor 10:1-2 : 1 I Paule my silfe beseche you by the mekenes and softnes of Christ which when I am present amoge you am of no reputacio but am bolde towarde you beinge absent. 2 I besech you that I nede not to be bolde when I am present (with that same confidece wher with I am supposed to be bolde) agaynst some which repute vs as though we walked carnally.
  • 2 Cor 10:10-11 : 10 For ye pistles (sayth he) are sore and stronge: but his bodyly presence is weake and his speache rude. 11 Let him yt is soche thynke on this wyse that as we are in wordes by letters when we are absent soche are we in dedes when we are present.
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 Therfore write I these thinges beynge absent lest when I am present I shuld vse sharpenes accordinge to the power which the Lorde hath geven me to edifie and not to destroye.
  • 1 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 For now are we alyve yf ye stonde stedfast in the LORde. 9 For what thankes can we recompence to god agayne for you over all the ioye that we ioye for youre sakes before oure god
  • 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 The elders yt rule wel are worthy of double honoure most specially they which laboure in ye worde and in teachinge.
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let vs not be vayne glorious provokinge one another and envyinge one another.
  • Gal 6:13 : 13 For they them selves which are circumcised kepe not the lawe: but desyre to have you circumcised that they myght reioyce in youre flesshe.
  • John 7:18 : 18 He that speaketh of him selfe seketh his awne prayse. But he that seketh his prayse that sent him the same is true and no vnrightewesnes is in him.
  • John 12:43 : 43 For they loved the prayse yt is geven of men more then the prayse that cometh of God.

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